Boulder City Sweeps Lady Bulldogs, 3-0

By BOB SNELL

The Progress

For one game, the Virgin Valley High School Girls Volleyball team showed they could play with one of the elite programs in the Southern 3A: Boulder City. Unfortunately, the second and third games showed the Lady Bulldogs are still a work in progress.

The Lady Eagles, the three-time defending 3-A state champions, swept the Lady Bulldogs, 3-0, by scores of 25-22, 25-11 and 25-8 on Wednesday night, Sept. 22 in the VVHS gymnasium.

The loss dropped Virgin Valley to 1-9 overall while Boulder City improved to 5-3. The Lady Bulldogs fell 3-0 to Clark earlier in the week in Las Vegas.

Virgin Valley jumped in front 4-0 in game one against Boulder City and maintained the advantage thanks to some strong overall play led by Calla Haviland, Reggi Frei and Marian Leavitt. The Lady Bulldogs led 22-19 and looked poised to take the game, but the Eagles responded by scoring the last six points to take game one, 25-22.

Boulder City kept that momentum going into the second game, grabbing an early 12-3 advantage behind the play of Juliana Luebke, Kira DeLong, Alyssa Bryant and Zoey Robinson. Virgin Valley cut the margin to 15-8 before eventually falling 25-11.

DeLong served 10 consecutive points to put the Lady Eagles up 10-0 in the third game and Virgin Valley never recovered as BC went on to win 25-8.

“We played really well that first game, but then they took over the last two games,” VVHS head coach Robert Nelson said. “If we could’ve won that first game it might have been different. We’ve got to learn how to finish.”

Haviland led Virgin Valley with 17 digs and seven kills while Frei had seven digs and four kills. Leavitt had 10 assists and four digs.

Luebke recorded 11 kills, six digs and three service aces to lead Boulder City with DeLong adding 19 assists, 10 digs and three aces.
“Boulder City is just a really good team,” Nelson said. “Our girls are still trying to get in sync. We’re getting there.”

Against Clark, the Lady Bulldogs fell by scores of 25-15, 25-19 and 25-19. It was the first match for Virgin Valley in almost three weeks.

“I thought we played well against Clark considering we hadn’t played a match for so long,” Nelson said.
Haviland had eight digs and four kills with Frei adding eight digs and three kills. Kinzley Lee notched six assists and Leavitt had three.